JUDGMENT
AKUFFO, J.S.C.
I have been privileged to read beforehand the opinions about to be read by my learned brothers Ocran and Ansah JJSC, and I fully agree with their conclusions. I have only a few words to add to their erudite exposition of the law on the matters raised herein.
The crux of the Appellants' complaint is that Nananom of the National House of Chiefs (hereinafter referred to as 'NHC') were in error when they declined jurisdiction to hear their Petition. As is clear from paragraph 4 of the Appellant's Reply to the 2nd Respondent's Statement of Case herein, the gravamen of the Petition (or, as Counsel rather inappropriately expressed it, the 'beef of the Appelants’) was that "in transmitting the Chieftaincy) Declaration Forms (hereinafter referred to as 'CDF') the 1st Respondent (the Central Region House of Chiefs) merely 'rubber stamped' the forms as presented by the Oguaa Traditional Council." Consequently, the Appellants, as petitioners, sought from Nananom a declaration…